A photo from open sources
Take a look at the video animation below. For the first look, it might seem that it was obtained on Mount Everest or in the canyons of Antarctica, but in reality everything is where more interesting.
Before us are amazing shots that were made several years ago by a landing module on the famous comet 67P or Churyumova-Gerasimenko discovered in 1969 by Soviet astronomers Klim Churyumov and Svetlana Gerasimenko.
Rosetta Automatic Interplanetary Station Launched European Space Agency March 2, 2004 to this celestial body, successfully sat on a comet, having received many photos in 25 minutes. Images were available World Wide Web users all this time, but have not won very popular among the regulars of the Network.
However, the Twitter user is currently under the pseudonym landru79 collected these photos together, centered them and got this magnificent accelerated animation, which is literally a scene from an extraterrestrial world.
The most curious thing about these frames was an effect similar to heavy snowfall. Of course, no snow on the comet Churyumova — Gerasimenko no. What are these many white dots, flying in different directions? Astronomers Interested in Publishing landru79, it is reported that several factors are to blame.
Firstly, in front of the camera lander clearly scattered sunlit dust. Secondly, similar artifacts on records are created by cosmic rays. And thirdly, take a look more attentive to the background – brighter dots are visible on it, falling strictly down. This, according to experts, is known to all stars. The comet continuously revolves around its orbit, and accelerated animation creates such an unusual effect.
But the most unusual in all of this is the creation of a presence on that distant comet, and so “realistic” that I want to to believe …
